Trump Holds DMZ Summit, Pauses China Trade War
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un stands with U.S. President Donald Trump north of the Military Demarcation Line that divides North and South Korea on June 30.
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Donald Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to set foot in North Korea, a day after he and Chinese leader Xi Jinping pushed the pause button on their trade war. Joe Biden, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, got a reality check from his rivals in the party’s first debate, and the flight of millions of people from the collapsing economy in Venezuela reverberated across South America.
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